Month: March 2018

Tracking

Tracking – April 2018

Brij Raj Sharma : The 1984 batch IAS officer of the Jammu & Kashmir cadre has been appointed Special Secretary, Department of Border...

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From the Editor

From the Editor : Anil Tyagi

THE North-East has been won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), coming after a spectacular victory in Uttar Pradesh, and a tough, but...

Cover Story

Rafale deal – Mess by Politicians

For hundreds of years, and even today, wars are strategised and fought in the boardrooms of the large industrial-military complexes, mostly privately-owned. Such...

Cover Story

Army – ill-equipped to fight a war

MANY years ago during the height of pro-Khalistan insurgency in Punjab, a senior police officer interrogating a captured militant received the greatest shock...

Governance

All that glitters isn’t Modi

KUCHCH din to gujaro Gujarat main! Only then can you visualise the entrepreneurial spirit of money-making adventures that grips the soul of a...

Governance

Standard deduction, a mere delusion

IN the budget speech, the Finance Minister, in para 151, under the caption ‘relief to salaried taxpayers’, has accepted the contribution of such...

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State Scan

Delhi : Uncivil fight

THE ugly face-off and the violent fallout between the Civil Service and Delhi government remind us of EV Lucas’ short story, Face on...

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State Scan

Caution! No mines ahead

INDIA received a not so envious accolade last week when the Fraser Institute (one of world’s top think tanks) dropped the country from...

First Stirrings

Perennial Reformist

NARENDRA Kumar was born on July 10, 1957, in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, in a family deep into poverty. His father Late Lila Ram...

Book Extract

The Cat is Out of the Bag

IN May 2007, upon the resignation of Dayanidhi Maran, I was asked by my party leadership to take charge of the Ministry of...